Arendt's final speech was truly enlightening. "The greatest evil in the world is the evil committed by the little people. It is the evil committed by people without motives. There is no criminal idea. There is no evil in the heart. There is no devil's will. Call it the evil of banality" and "Since Socrates and Plato we have often called thinking as I begin a silent dialogue with myself, refusing as a person Eichmann fully surrenders that most uniquely human quality that is thinking. So he no longer has the ability to make moral judgments. This inability to think creates a possibility for many ordinary people to commit crimes on a massive scale. This is something the world has never seen before. This is true. I use The philosophical method has thought about these issues. The wind of thinking shows not knowledge but the ability to distinguish right from wrong The ability to judge beauty and ugliness. I hope that thinking can give people the strength to prevent the occurrence of catastrophe in these few moments and in critical moments.” ... Arendt analyzes Eichmann's trial from a philosophical rather than purely emotional and human point of view. Mediocrity itself is not evil, but outside of the "original evil", if people lose the ability to think and discern, they will lose the bottom line of morality. At that time, the Nazis, who stood on the commanding heights and had racial superiority, fell into abandoning their subjective will and "obeying orders" completely rationally, that is, they were reduced to "banal evil"... I admire Arendt's courage, as a Jew, in After being devastated as well, facing such a trial in which the whole people are angry and accused by thousands of people, I can still use the most calm and public attitude as a philosopher, an author, to clarify the truth, but as a brave and uphold the truth At the price, Arendt also lost his best friend. The history of bad deeds cannot be avoided or erased. While mourning the victims and criticizing the persecutors, we must also seek the truth and truth from it, and remember and reflect on it.
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